The Elusive Purple Gang - Detroit's Kosher Nostra

The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.

About the author

Literary Classics gold medal award-winning author Gregory A. Fournier received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Language Arts from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. A writer of creative nonfiction, his books include The Elusive Purple Gang, Zug Island, Terror in Ypsilanti, The Richard Streicher Jr. Murder, and Detroit Time Capsule.Fournier writes short history posts for his blog, Fornology.com, and he has appeared on the Investigation Discovery Channel as a guest expert on serial killer John Norman Collins for the series A Crime to Remember in an episode titled "A New Kind of Monster."

Product details

• Authors: Gregory A. Fournier
• Publisher: Wheatmark
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781627877145
• ISBN: 978-1-62787-714-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology